Raul Acosta Garcia
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 137774 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Raul Acosta Garcia |
| NOMBRES | Raul Acosta |
| APELLIDO | Garcia |
| FIRMA | GARCIA R A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8280-7251 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Racist humour in Mexico's media
In 2020, an unprecedented public discussion sought to denounce racist humour in Mexican mainstream and social media, especially targeting Indigenous people. Against the organisers’ expectations, the result appeared to bolster the bigoted comedian who they attempted to condemn. This case is an example of recent efforts by progressive intellectuals and comedians around the world who aim to criticise discriminatory comedy only to reinforce polarised…
Reading rivers from libraries
Public libraries can serve as a key starting point for initiating citizen participation projects related to the local environment. To illustrate this, we implemented the Llegim el riu project, a citizen participatory initiative aimed at engaging citizens in the assessment and management of rivers close to urban municipalities in the province of Barcelona. After a training exercise led by researchers, citizens and stakeholders were involved in bot…
Racial baggage
What is not Counted, doesn't Count
Urban mobility in Mexico City is managed through a technomoral form of governance in which activists, advocates, experts and other stakeholders agree on priorities to shape government policies and projects. The process is less of a political-ideological haggling, and more of a moral struggle between right and wrong. These moral views are supported through technically implementable data or formulas. The phrase 'what is not counted doesn't count' w…
Technomoral Governance
This special issue examines the concept of 'technomoral governance', a framework that describes the intertwining of moral imperatives with technocratic and technological solutions in contemporary political governance. Building on Erica Bornstein and Aradhana Sharma's (2016) notion of 'technomoral politics', which looked at how moral projects become intertwined with legal-technical interventions, we explore how political tactics increasingly rely …
Ecosystems are Filters
Raúl Acosta asks what happens when infrastructure is designed as a living thing. He describes Mexican environmental project Ecoducto, which restores a degraded urban river while performing beneficial filtering effects
Urban Bioinfrastructures
Raúl Acosta and Lukas Ley advance the concept of urban bioinfrastructures in relation to human and non-human city dwellers. They position the ambivalent politics of these bioinfrastructures vis-à-vis ‘nature-based’ solutions
Responses
Thinking with Urban Natures
Since the Enlightenment, cities have been considered as exemplary spaces of human achievement. Technological developments and the constant reorganisation of materials and infrastructures have contributed to a widely shared conception of nature as something outside of urban areas. Our age, framed by the Anthropocene and the sixth wave of extinction, has shattered such vision. Novel reflections across the natural sciences, the arts and the humaniti…
Cycloactivism in Mexico City
Cycling in Mexico City is dangerous. But over the last two decades it has become less so. New cycleways, a large public bicycle-sharing scheme, various government cycling promotion projects and an abundance of official signalling demanding respect for cyclists have made bicycles visible as worthy vehicles on city streets. For cycloactivists, however, such improvements are not enough. Cyclists are frequently harassed, attacked or run over by motor…
Chapter 9 “We Are Plumbers of Democracy” a Study of Aspirations to Inclusive Public Dialogues in Mexico and Its Repercussions
Discreet Diversification in Latin America
In contrast to the various hubs where superdiversity is commonly studied, Latin America experiences a discreet form of diversification. This is due partly the subcontinent’s slower globalization speed, but also, crucially, to the resistance to acknowledging such processes by locals and migrants. Such disinclination to openly accept an increasing number of outsiders and their influence can be historically linked to a regional preference for mestiz…
Responses
Re-imagining cities as ecosystems
The constitution of environmental subjects by governments and civil society organizations around the world has taken place within a framework of neoliberal urbanization. This entails promoting an individual sense of responsibility over urban environments among city dwellers. The approach used is not so much governmentality as environmentality, because of its focus on environmental matters. We claim that the tools used in this process are designed…
Toward Engaged Anthropology
By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation toward participatory roles that become increasing…
Lektüren
Toma-La Ciudad
En el otoño de 2013, una red de activistas en Guadalajara, México, montó una exhibición en un museo, realizó intervenciones en las calles de la ciudad, y organizó eventos para persuadir a los habitantes urbanos y a oficiales de gobierno a remediar los problemas de la metrópolis. En su mayoría miembros de la clase media, los activistas usaron el nombre "Toma-la Ciudad" para alentar a la población de la ciudad a involucrarse en esfuerzos de la soci…
Diversities old and new
Are significant patterns emerging around the world in the way urban populations react to increasing diversities produced by migration? The authors of this volume claim this is so. They put forth th
Fires on the Border
Mexican maquiladoras (manufacturing operations in a free trade zone) have long been identified as key sites of neoliberal capitalism. Driven by the need to boost competitiveness and profits, maquil
Mexico through a superdiversity lens
New migration flows to Mexico are challenging long-established sociocultural configurations. So far, most studies on immigrants in Mexico have focused on singular ethno-national groups rather than paying attention to the intermingling of people. This paper presents an examination of diversification processes occurring in Guadalajara, Mexico. We contend that these are particularly strained because of the continuing frictions with which the country…
Rationalities in history
Still life
Afro-Mexican lives in the long nineteenth-century
In recent years, Afro-Mexicanness has harnessed increased interest in academia and beyond. Scholars from various disciplines have examined colonial histories, post-revolutionary identification proc
The children of Solaga
North of El Norte
Studies of Mexican "illegalized" migrants have overwhelmingly focused on examples from the United States of America. This book marks a valuable scholarly contribution by examining cases of precario
Diversities old and new
Are significant patterns emerging around the world in the way urban populations react to increasing diversities produced by migration? The authors of this volume claim this is so. They put forth th
Mexico through a superdiversity lens
New migration flows to Mexico are challenging long-established sociocultural configurations. So far, most studies on immigrants in Mexico have focused on singular ethno-national groups rather than paying attention to the intermingling of people. This paper presents an examination of diversification processes occurring in Guadalajara, Mexico. We contend that these are particularly strained because of the continuing frictions with which the country…
Advocacy Networks Through a Multidisciplinary Lens
Advocacy networks are coalitions of movements and organizations that in recent years have gained unprecedented levels of influence through their soft power strategies. They have become key political actors in local, national and international arenas. Research on their performance and role within today’s information society has been developed by academics from different disciplines. Some of these analyses, however, seem to portray them as a new ac…
Toma-La Ciudad
En el otoño de 2013, una red de activistas en Guadalajara, México, montó una exhibición en un museo, realizó intervenciones en las calles de la ciudad, y organizó eventos para persuadir a los habitantes urbanos y a oficiales de gobierno a remediar los problemas de la metrópolis. En su mayoría miembros de la clase media, los activistas usaron el nombre "Toma-la Ciudad" para alentar a la población de la ciudad a involucrarse en esfuerzos de la soci…
Technomoral Governance
This special issue examines the concept of 'technomoral governance', a framework that describes the intertwining of moral imperatives with technocratic and technological solutions in contemporary political governance. Building on Erica Bornstein and Aradhana Sharma's (2016) notion of 'technomoral politics', which looked at how moral projects become intertwined with legal-technical interventions, we explore how political tactics increasingly rely …
Mapping Solidarity
Current transnational networks of non-governmental organizations and social movements have challenged nation-states' policy designs. Their increasing political legitimacy, however, is matched by cultural friction and misunderstandings among their members and stakeholders. This paper argues that anthropological insights may provide maps that can help shape advocacy networks' guidelines for action. Just as social analysts of past centuries provided…
Advocacy Networks Through a Multidisciplinary Lens
Advocacy networks are coalitions of movements and organizations that in recent years have gained unprecedented levels of influence through their soft power strategies. They have become key political actors in local, national and international arenas. Research on their performance and role within today’s information society has been developed by academics from different disciplines. Some of these analyses, however, seem to portray them as a new ac…
Rationalities in history
Still life
Fires on the Border
Mexican maquiladoras (manufacturing operations in a free trade zone) have long been identified as key sites of neoliberal capitalism. Driven by the need to boost competitiveness and profits, maquil
Mexico through a superdiversity lens
New migration flows to Mexico are challenging long-established sociocultural configurations. So far, most studies on immigrants in Mexico have focused on singular ethno-national groups rather than paying attention to the intermingling of people. This paper presents an examination of diversification processes occurring in Guadalajara, Mexico. We contend that these are particularly strained because of the continuing frictions with which the country…
Diversities old and new
Are significant patterns emerging around the world in the way urban populations react to increasing diversities produced by migration? The authors of this volume claim this is so. They put forth th
Toma-La Ciudad
En el otoño de 2013, una red de activistas en Guadalajara, México, montó una exhibición en un museo, realizó intervenciones en las calles de la ciudad, y organizó eventos para persuadir a los habitantes urbanos y a oficiales de gobierno a remediar los problemas de la metrópolis. En su mayoría miembros de la clase media, los activistas usaron el nombre "Toma-la Ciudad" para alentar a la población de la ciudad a involucrarse en esfuerzos de la soci…
Chapter 9 “We Are Plumbers of Democracy” a Study of Aspirations to Inclusive Public Dialogues in Mexico and Its Repercussions
Discreet Diversification in Latin America
In contrast to the various hubs where superdiversity is commonly studied, Latin America experiences a discreet form of diversification. This is due partly the subcontinent’s slower globalization speed, but also, crucially, to the resistance to acknowledging such processes by locals and migrants. Such disinclination to openly accept an increasing number of outsiders and their influence can be historically linked to a regional preference for mestiz…
Responses
Re-imagining cities as ecosystems
The constitution of environmental subjects by governments and civil society organizations around the world has taken place within a framework of neoliberal urbanization. This entails promoting an individual sense of responsibility over urban environments among city dwellers. The approach used is not so much governmentality as environmentality, because of its focus on environmental matters. We claim that the tools used in this process are designed…
Toward Engaged Anthropology
By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation toward participatory roles that become increasing…
Lektüren
Ecosystems are Filters
Raúl Acosta asks what happens when infrastructure is designed as a living thing. He describes Mexican environmental project Ecoducto, which restores a degraded urban river while performing beneficial filtering effects
Urban Bioinfrastructures
Raúl Acosta and Lukas Ley advance the concept of urban bioinfrastructures in relation to human and non-human city dwellers. They position the ambivalent politics of these bioinfrastructures vis-à-vis ‘nature-based’ solutions
Responses
Thinking with Urban Natures
Since the Enlightenment, cities have been considered as exemplary spaces of human achievement. Technological developments and the constant reorganisation of materials and infrastructures have contributed to a widely shared conception of nature as something outside of urban areas. Our age, framed by the Anthropocene and the sixth wave of extinction, has shattered such vision. Novel reflections across the natural sciences, the arts and the humaniti…
Cycloactivism in Mexico City
Cycling in Mexico City is dangerous. But over the last two decades it has become less so. New cycleways, a large public bicycle-sharing scheme, various government cycling promotion projects and an abundance of official signalling demanding respect for cyclists have made bicycles visible as worthy vehicles on city streets. For cycloactivists, however, such improvements are not enough. Cyclists are frequently harassed, attacked or run over by motor…
Afro-Mexican lives in the long nineteenth-century
In recent years, Afro-Mexicanness has harnessed increased interest in academia and beyond. Scholars from various disciplines have examined colonial histories, post-revolutionary identification proc
The children of Solaga
What is not Counted, doesn't Count
Urban mobility in Mexico City is managed through a technomoral form of governance in which activists, advocates, experts and other stakeholders agree on priorities to shape government policies and projects. The process is less of a political-ideological haggling, and more of a moral struggle between right and wrong. These moral views are supported through technically implementable data or formulas. The phrase 'what is not counted doesn't count' w…
Technomoral Governance
This special issue examines the concept of 'technomoral governance', a framework that describes the intertwining of moral imperatives with technocratic and technological solutions in contemporary political governance. Building on Erica Bornstein and Aradhana Sharma's (2016) notion of 'technomoral politics', which looked at how moral projects become intertwined with legal-technical interventions, we explore how political tactics increasingly rely …
North of El Norte
Studies of Mexican "illegalized" migrants have overwhelmingly focused on examples from the United States of America. This book marks a valuable scholarly contribution by examining cases of precario
Racist humour in Mexico's media
In 2020, an unprecedented public discussion sought to denounce racist humour in Mexican mainstream and social media, especially targeting Indigenous people. Against the organisers’ expectations, the result appeared to bolster the bigoted comedian who they attempted to condemn. This case is an example of recent efforts by progressive intellectuals and comedians around the world who aim to criticise discriminatory comedy only to reinforce polarised…
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